Sync Slicers In Power BIFeb 16, 2018. In this article, we will talk about the sync slicer, steps to apply “Sync” slicers in Power BI Desktop and different use cases to test this new rolled out feature in the February 2018 update.

Angular 5 HTTP Client InterceptorsJan 25, 2018. Many of us know the concept of middleware. It acts as the layer before sending a request and after receiving a response. What if we want to do the same in Angular? Now, the question arises what will be the cases where we will be needing this middleware.

App.Config AutoReaderJan 17, 2018. In our day to day development, it is a rare case where we don’t need to read a configuration file. There are many techniques for the treatment of such static classes, singleton classes, etc and it is normally that the Config class is accessible in all projects.

Stored Procedures In Azure Cosmos DBJan 16, 2018. There are many performance benefits when executing complex operations like Batching in case of using Stored Procedures. Reason is all these operations get executed closer to data as Stored Procedures are stored at server side.

Identity Server 4 With ASP.NET Core 2.0Jan 16, 2018. OAuth 2 provides several flows or grant types for various use cases. I personally group them into two categories; flows that require user interaction with authorization server and flows that don’t.

An Introduction To Q#Jan 15, 2018. In this article, I will be explaining about Q# - the new programming language introduced by Microsoft for quantum computing. We will understand the data type, expressions, and statements of Q# with the help of code snippets.

Observables With Angular 5Jan 12, 2018. We have a case where we use observable to populate the UI from the external data asynchronously Angular uses same thing for this task let’s see how we can use the observables and use them in an angular application.

Creating A C# Console App From My iPhoneJan 02, 2018. Hyper IDE [link to https://github.com/polterguy/hyper-ide] is an Open Source web-based Integrated Development Environment. It supports 100+ progamming languages out of the box, and can be integrated with any type of command line tools, such as Git, compilers, etc. This leads to some interesting traits, such as the ability to actually create for instance C# console apps, from the browser on your phone. For the record, writing code on a phone, is not easy, and not something I encourage people to do in general. However, the border line use cases have interest.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Tag Helper ComponentDec 18, 2017. In case you’re wondering if the solution above is missing a Tag Helper for head HTML element, it’s not. ASP.NET Core team has provided us with two built-in Tag Helpers, one targets head and the other targets the body element: HeadTagHelper and BodyTagHelper.

What XSLT Transformation Is And How To Use ItDec 12, 2017. XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. Sometimes the user wants to some kind of xml structure instead of whole xml; In that case we can use XSLT transformation. This article gives us idea about this.

Pug Vs HTMLNov 26, 2017. In the holy wars of &quot;Pug vs HTML&quot;, it is really confusing sometimes to realize which one of these to use. The same is true for SQL vs NoSQL, and the similar is true for Java vs Python. Then people think why not talk about Pug vs HTML as well. HTML is always the perfect language to consider, however for the case of Pug there might be a bit of confusion. Some developers don&#39;t know Pug, and some who know it, know it as a Jade framework.

DROP IF EXISTS In SQL Server 2016Nov 13, 2017. With this very small but handy tip, we’ll check the enhancement that has been made to DROP statement in SQL Server 2016. Earlier, we used to write additional checking logic to make sure that the object exists to drop. If we miss writing the check and if the object is not available, then we are being served with an error message. With SQL Server 2016, now we can check the existence of the respective object without any error being generated.

Always Encrypted In SQL Server 2016 - Step By Step Guide - Part TwoOct 14, 2017. This is part two of &quot;Always Encrypted In SQL Server 2016 - Step By Step Guide&quot; series. In this article, we are going to see the sample queries on encrypted columns and Limitations of Always Encrypted feature. In case, if you have missed out the first part of the series.

Shared Storage Using Azure File ServiceOct 10, 2017. In most cases, the virtual disks we are creating for an Azure VM are connected to that particular VM with a 1:1 relationship which can’t be accessed by another VM at the same time. In case you need a shared storage by multiple VMs you should use Azure File Shares. Azure File shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of Windows, Linux, and macOS. This is mostly used in case of any requirement of something like a shared application setting or if you need to share any tools or utilities between developers and administrators.

Default(T) In GenericsSep 27, 2017. Default represents default value of T parameter in generics intructions. In several cases, the default keyword is an absolute unknown and we think it’s unnecessary or its functionality is null. There are many development moments with the generics classes where the default keyword can be useful.

XAML Value Converter With A Simple ExampleSep 27, 2017. In this article, I&#39;m going to show you how you can use value converter in XAML to convert one format of data into another format. In our case, we&#39;ll convert a string value (value in the textbox) to a Boolean value (checked status of a checkbox).

Where Can I Use Common Azure CosmosDB (Use Cases)?Sep 06, 2017. Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally-distributed, multi-model database service for managing data at planet-scale. It builds upon and extends the earlier Azure DocumentDB which was released in 2014.

Setup Of Virtual Machines On Azure Using TerraformSep 01, 2017. Microsoft recently announced increased investment in integrating Terraform with Azure (Aug 2017). This is a continuation of Microsofts’ reach into the agnostic/multi-cloud cloud arena, where they are doing whatever it takes to help developers succeed in the cloud. It used to be the case that Azure was only for Micosoft developers - well no more. The crew in Redmond and every office around the globe are really pushing the open-source and &#39;Azure for everyone&#39; opportunity.

Async Validation In WPFAug 31, 2017. Quite often validation requires web requests, database calls or some other kind of actions which require significant amount of time. In this case, UI should be responsible during the validation, but saving/submitting data should be disabled until validations completion.

Swift Programming - Zero To Hero - Part ThreeAug 17, 2017. Statements are the building blocks of any program. We can perform any function with the help of statements, such as checking values or declaring variables, calling methods, or even creating objects.

Execution Of Test Cases In Sequential And Parallel Using Selenium WebdriverJul 18, 2017. Selenium is an open source tool, which is used to execute the test scripts or the test cases on web applications. As we know Selenium is an open source tool, which supports various programming languages such as Java,C#, PHP,JavaScript, Ruby etc. Selenium supports various operating systems to execute the test scripts on web applications like Windows, Linux, MacOS etc. Selenium is written using one of the famous programming languages; i.e. Java, and its a cross-platform.

Simulate SharePoint Online Timer Jobs Using Azure FunctionsJul 05, 2017. SharePoint Server provides native Timer Jobs that inherit SPJobDefinition class to run at regular intervals defined in the SPSchedule object. This way we can create solutions that have to be iteratively run to process logic at regular intervals. However, in case of SharePoint Online Native Timer Jobs cannot be used.

Understand The Power Of Windows PowerShell Pipeline ( | )Jun 26, 2017. Windows PowerShell pipeline allows us to join two or more statements with a pipe symbol, sometimes called the &#39;|&#39; bar key. This tells PowerShell that we want to take the output of one command and pass it as the input to the next command. Let’s look at simple example to better understand the power of pipeline in Windows PowerShell.

Code Improvement Techniques In C#Jun 13, 2017. General code improvement technique over string.empty, string.Equals, string.Intern, StringBuilder, string.Format, case insensitive comparisons, using Block and Linq - First, FirstOrDefault, Single and SingleOrDefault. Main focus points are - what are the advantages and the purpose to use these.

Azure Traffic Manager - Part TwoMay 17, 2017. In part one, we saw how to work with geographic regions. In this we will see about performance which will switch the endpoints in case of failure.

Test Driven Development (TDD) - Part TwoMar 14, 2017. This article explains the options available in Visual Studio to work with Test Driven Development and also present examples about writing unit test cases.

Converting A String To Different Cases And HumanizerMay 30, 2016. In this article, you will learn ways to convert a string to different cases, for example Upper case, Lower case, Title case (capitalize each word), Camel case, Pascal case, Sentence case, Toggle case or converting a string to a sentence using C# code.

Protect Your Data: Prevent SQL InjectionMay 27, 2016. SQL injection is a code injection technique, used to attack data-driven applications, in which nefarious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for an execution. How to prevent SQL Injection to protect your data is being imparted through this article.

Car Rental Web PortalMay 19, 2016. This web portal is designed for a ren- a-car services provider where the user can visit and book their required vehicle online and select their vehicle, duration, driver option etc.

Tag Helpers In MVC 6May 10, 2016. This article explains in a simple manner what are tag helpers in MVC 6, why do we need tag helpers over the HTML helpers provided by the previous versions of MVC and a simple implementation of a use case using tag helpers.

IFTTT An IntroductionNov 01, 2015. In this article you will learn about IFTTT. IFTTT is a web service which allows other services to be programmed by means of simple conditional statements called recipes.

Conditional Statements In C#Sep 29, 2015. In this article you will learn how we can create logical decision making statements in the code which will help you to make decision based on certain conditions.